Caracas, February 02nd 2018.- Oscar Pérez was not a "freedom fighter" or a "rebel pilot", much less a "young oppositionist assassinated by the Venezuelan Government" as is being presented by the international press.The group that accompanied him when he was confronting the security forces in an antiterrorist operation was not part of any peaceful political organization either; they were an instrument of violence and destabilization of the Venezuelan democracy.

Oscar Pérez was a commissioner of the Venezuelan investigative police, an expert in special operations and handling of explosives, of which he defected from the police forces on June 27, 2017; furthermore he stole a helicopter from that institution and committed two perverse crimes on the sky of the city of Caracas: he shot against the building of the Ministry of the Interior towards a terrace where a group of social communicators was celebrating the Day of the Journalist.